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[[File:Group photo at Kashana Calcutta 1937.jpg|thumb|At "Kashana", the house of [[Hassan Suhrawardy]], Kolkata, 1937:<br />
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Sitting (left to right): [[Aruna Asaf Ali]], [[Nellie Sengupta]], [[Sarojini Naidu]], Shahbanu Begum, and unknown. The photograph was taken by Annapurna Dutta, "Photographer Mashima". ]]<br />
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'''Annapurna Dutta''' (1894–1976) was one of the early female [[Photography|professional photographers]] from [[India]]. At a time when [[Studio photography|studio-photography]] was a male-dominated profession, and accepting employment outside the domestic home was uncommon for women, Annapurna gained popularity as "Photographer Mashima" amidst her younger contemporaries. She did not own a studio, but instead worked on a commission-basis, visiting people's homes to click portraits. Most of these commissions came from families where women observed a [[purdah]]. She also developed and printed the pictures herself. <ref>{{Cite web |title=PEEPING BEHIND THE PURDAH - Early women photographers |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/peeping-behind-the-purdah-early-women-photographers/cid/455848 |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lettmann |first=Birgit |title=India and Its Visual Cultures: Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Landscape |publisher=Sage Publications India Private Limited |year=2017 |isbn=9789353881238}}</ref><br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Born in undivided Bengal, Annapurna was married at the age of 12 to Upendranath Dutta, a lawyer by profession and a keen, but amateur photographer. She learnt painting and photography, later taking up photography professionally at the age of 25. She supported her family through earnings from her commissions. <br />
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Her commissions came from elite families such as those of the singer Abbas Uddin, poet [[Jasimuddin]], and the family of [[Hassan Suhrawardy|Hasan Suhrawardy]]. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Helland |first=Janice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eS8rDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22annapurna%20Dutta%22%20photography&pg=PA70 |title=Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century |date=2017-07-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-55984-3 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian photographers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian women photographers]]<br />
[[Category:1894 births]]<br />
[[Category:1976 deaths]]</div>Harman23